Deleted my Twitter and other fiat social media sometime back, for all the reasons stated. Twitter, as well as being a time drain, is often polluted with content which, in my humble opinion, is straight up embarrassing. A lot of edgy young men on an ill-informed dick swinging mission to get dopamine hits.

Not that I'm above such behaviour, it's just the realisation that it did me no good mentally pointlessly arguing with people who, in all reality, won't change their minds anyway.

Sure there is some useful info but for the most part it's a whole heap of confirmation bias. I'd rather hear well thought out criticism of bitcoin/privacy/tech tools or guides on how I can do better. I'm trying to best learn the tools that suit my personal risk profile, podcasts are often incredible and I'd rather email the people direct and thank them or send them some sats via PayNym.

Pre-social media forums ran the day, no one used their real name and it was fun (as well as pointing to more long form content). It's an internet I want to get back to, smaller communities based on special interests. Re-tuning my brain is hard, I'm susceptible to dopamine as the next person. Matrix is cool and Mastodon's federated model works well, you can visit different worlds, with different vibes depending on where your brains at.

Probably best to focus on people near you IRL and help them get on board in a privacy focussed way. It wasn't Twitter got me into Bitcoin, it was a major hatred for the banks and hearing from a friend about this other money, something I was aware of previously but being a former junky, didn't want to go on the Silk Road.

Appreciated this post. It's my first sats based interaction (tried Fountain and Sphynx but they're still buggy for me).

I'm just another pleb trying to escape this bullshit so don't know if I'm right or wrong but do know two opposing things can be true, too much binary in this world, trying to think quantum haha.